Recaps

Jiang Jie survived an attempted poisoning and assassination, earned a place among Lordaeron’s Royal Assassins, and began training with the gaming pod while seeking a way to gain power and money. His novel impressed Princess Calia, who offered to help publish it, but Jiang Jie asked her not to print it yet.

• Jiang Jie awoke in Nicholas Barov’s body during the plague outbreak, met Arthas and Jaina, and concealed his identity as Nicholas Jiang.
• Jiang Jie entered Lordaeron’s class trials, crossed the rogue course’s full hundred meters, and earned an invitation to join the Royal Assassins from Miles and Master Onias.
• Jiang Jie learned that mana potions could power the gaming pod, while Baron Soroson arranged for agents to target him and Miles suspected the Royal Assassins had been infiltrated.
• Jiang Jie resisted Melva’s assassination attempt with Pegasus Meteor Finger, but her poison left him unconscious, and Miles later found her dead in custody and suspected another infiltrator.
• Jiang Jie trained under Roand and Xiao Feng, became a qualified rogue apprentice, and began brewing mana soup to support his practice.
• Jiang Jie wrote Tides of Darkness with Xiao Feng’s translation function, and Princess Calia was impressed by the pages and invited him to meet her.
• Jiang Jie visited Princess Calia’s residence, where she offered him a place as her personal guard and proposed publishing his novel for a share of the profits.
• Jiang Jie declined to publish the novel yet, despite telling Princess Calia he needed money and that he would accept a larger profit share for her.

Jiang Jie built a storytelling venture, advanced his cultivation, and earned recognition among the Assassins' Order. On the journey to Tirisfal Monastery, he helped defeat a cult ambush and exposed Dudley’s possession of Scourge Plague, while Dudley implicated his father in the Cult of the Damned.

• Jiang Jie challenged Don Quixote’s dismissal of storytelling, began writing Hamlet, and joined him in planning performances and other ways to earn money.
• Jiang Jie learned the Taiji Divine Art and rogue techniques, mastered Stealth, and received the Thief's Blade from Onias.
• Don Quixote’s performance of Tides of Darkness drew a large crowd, while Uther and Fenna left to report Arthas’s purge of Stratholme.
• Miles sent Jiang Jie to accompany Mage Nolan’s party to Tirisfal Monastery, and Princess Calia gave him an Elemental Necklace for protection.
• Jiang Jie clashed with Dudley at the city gate, then joined Nolan, Harold, Basil, and the others on their journey.
• When cultists ambushed the party near Venomweb Vale, Jiang Jie used his rogue skills and Elemental Necklace to defeat several attackers and help save the survivors.
• Jiang Jie identified the dead mage’s spellbook as evidence of necromancy and suspected the attackers belonged to the Cult of the Damned.
• Jiang Jie caught Dudley with a vial of Scourge Plague, and Dudley later confessed that Corno had told him to poison the group and offered to report his father as a cult member.

Jiang Jie helped Princess Calia expose the Cult of the Damned and survive its attempted coup in Lordaeron, while Terenas began relying on Calia to govern. The Silver Hand purified a shadow crystal that Jiang Jie named Ashbringer, just as news arrived that Arthas had dissolved the order.

• Basil’s group reached Tirisfal Monastery, where Tyrosus explained that Mograine, Fairbanks, and Doan were away investigating the plague.
• Jiang Jie trained Lilian’s rogue skills, brought her and Dudley to Princess Calia, and helped reveal Baron Soroson’s Cult of the Damned ties to Terenas.
• After Terenas dismissed Calia’s warnings, Calia recruited Jiang Jie, Jaina, and Fenna to capture Soroson and purge the cult from Lordaeron.
• Jiang Jie and Miles identified cult members in the Assassins’ Order, while Fenna and Jiang Jie exposed infiltrators among the Paladins and Silver Hand forces.
• Mordred and his cultist followers attacked Terenas, but Jiang Jie, Lilian, and Jaina stopped them, and Terenas knighted Jiang Jie and began sharing the kingdom’s burdens with Calia.
• Jiang Jie and Jaina brought Fenna to Southshore, where the Silver Hand leaders and Fenna purified a shadow crystal with Holy Light.
• Jiang Jie named the purified crystal Ashbringer and arranged for Jaina and Fenna to take it to Ironforge for forging.
• Dathrohan reported Arthas’s massacre of Stratholme and dissolution of the Silver Hand as Jaina and Doan opened a portal back to Lordaeron.

Jiang Jie strengthened Lordaeron’s defenses, mastered new skills, and took the fight to the undead at Felstone Field. As Arthas advanced on Lordaeron and Uther was gravely wounded, Fenna claimed Ashbringer and prepared to join the defense.

• Jiang Jie secured Calia’s support for Tirion Fordring’s return to the Silver Hand, helped arrange reinforcements, and built his strength through cultivation and martial training.
• Jiang Jie defeated the Vile Fin Murlocs’ leaders, became King of Lordamere, and ordered them to leave humans and Pincerjaw Turtles alone.
• After learning that Arthas had taken Frostmourne and killed Muradin Bronzebeard, Jiang Jie urged Calia to prepare for an attack and plan for refugee evacuations.
• Jiang Jie learned advanced rogue skills from Miles and Xiao Feng, then rode to Andorhal to seek combat experience.
• Jiang Jie rescued Lilian, Taelan Fordring, and the defenders at Felstone Field, killed the necromancer and an elite abomination, and helped the reinforcements defeat the undead.
• Arthas confronted Uther, Jaina, and Lord Korth'azz at sea, wounded Uther, and let Tichondrius disrupt their escape, capturing Lord Korth'azz.
• Magni completed Ashbringer, which chose Fenna as its wielder and transformed her into a Grand Knight before she departed for Lordaeron.